How Does your Software Grow Evolution and Architectural Change in Open Source Software

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This position paper presents a short summary of two recent projects, the first a case study on the evolution and growth in open source software. The second project involves developing a tool called Beagle to aid software maintainers in understanding how large systems have changed over time. Beagle aims to provide help in modeling long term evolution of systems that have undergone architectural and structural change.

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